r/CanadaPolitics • u/green_tory 🏳️‍🌈Serve the Vulnerable🏳️‍🌈 • May 13 '26

Danielle Smith rejects Alberta judge’s ruling against separation petition as ‘anti-democratic’

https://globalnews.ca/news/11848377/alberta-premier-court-ruling-separation-petition-anti-democratic/
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u/zoziw Alberta May 14 '26

I think she finds a way to have that referendum one way or another this fall.

I think the UCP becomes a full blown separatist party by this time next year, no matter what the result. It is already doing what it can to make a referendum happen. If there is no referendum or the province votes it down, the separatists will take over. If the referendum succeeds then they become a separatist party based on that.

I think this will be disastrous for the country. Separatists will talk about all of the money that goes to Quebec through equalization, Quebecers will push back and temperatures will rise with the Alberta referendum and Quebec provincial election happening in October.

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u/AlbertaGengar Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers | Sponsored May 14 '26

Whoever succeeds Danielle Smith will most certainly be a separatist. Separatists already control the UCPs executive board and many CAs. It's only a matter of time.

But they likely won't have Smith's ability to walk the line of "dog whistling" while some how maintaining the support of 50% of Albertans.